·     PNG Panel 2:

o In discussing PNG Panel 2, AT-E1168-lecture23.t0:35:56-36:20 reads Waxak Banak and Juun Banak (and omits any mention of L2 as Chuwaaj): And then two local gods – One Banak and Eight Banak. We have no idea who these Banaks are. It’s some pair of gods, popular in this region, but we don’t know the meaning or significance of the word Banak. We so far cannot identify or place them – there’s not a single image of Banaks. That would certainly help, but it hasn’t happened yet. [Sim: the drawing shown in the slide is the one by Stuart.]

o However, in a later lecture, he does include PNG Panel 2 L2 in his explanation, reading it as CHUWAAJ – AT-YT2021-lecture21.t0:05:44-06:36 (when explaining part of PNG Panel 2, where Yax Ha’al Chaak and  Waxak Banak & Juun Banak Chuwaaj are the gods of Itzam K’an Ahk III):

§ Banak might also be Ha’ Nak – local gods not known from other sites [Sim: without some other parallel instances there is no way of telling if it’s the ba or the HA’].

§ Tokovinine explains that PNG is right on the Usumacinta River, which is a river with very dangerous rapids, so HA’ would be appropriate, as a reference to two river gods. He also explains that Chuwaaj is a Fire God.

In this lecture, black and white photographs of PNG Panel 2 are shown on the slide.

o In connection with this monument, they are mentioned as two of the gods (along with Yax Ha’al) who were “present” at the ritual where the PNG ruler Itzam K’an Ahk grasped the ko’haws = “war helmets”.

·     PNG Panel 12 / Lintel 12:

o The monument is called Lintel 12 in some drawings and Panel 12 by Tokovinine and some photos.

o AT-YT2021-lecture17.t0:54:58-55:36: A local god called the ‘God of Eight Banak’. We don’t know what Banaks are – they come with different numbers. It one of those terms that we just find. And they’re very important at Piedras Negras, [and] they’re very important at Yaxchilan. There’s just no clue – no surviving gloss – that explains why gods are Banaks; and why they can be Number Eight, Number Four, or …. But that’s local gods. So they all live in that Waybil – in that Otoot – and that’s a very large structure too – a major temple, adjacent to a natural hill.

o In connection with this monument, Waxak Banak is mentioned as having a Waybil (“dormitory”) which was house-censed (=el naah) in a house-censing ritual.

·     YAX Lintel 10 D2b & E6b:

o The occurrence of the word banak on this monument is because it forms part of one of the additional names of K’inich Tatbu Jolom IV, namely Aj K’an Banak.